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Letter : Why do they go gaga over Lady Gaga?

It is painful to see a few segments in the largest Muslim populous country — Indonesia — going gaga over Lady Gaga when millions of their Muslim brothers are festering in Indian-held Kashmir, facing trouble in Syria, or are being steamrolled in Iraq or attacked by drones in Pakistan

The Jakarta Post
Thu, June 7, 2012

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Letter : Why do they go gaga over Lady Gaga?

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t is painful to see a few segments in the largest Muslim populous country — Indonesia — going gaga over Lady Gaga when millions of their Muslim brothers are festering in Indian-held Kashmir, facing trouble in Syria, or are being steamrolled in Iraq or attacked by drones in Pakistan.

It is sad that nobody has the time to heed the pitiful cries of widowed, desecrated women and the maimed thousands, and that there is time left to have this unrelenting fuss over the devil’s worshipper.

But hats off to those Indonesians who refused to allow Satan’s clan to perform in front of thousands of Jakartans. They have proved that religious spirit is strong enough to reject satanic ways.

Why don’t the Indonesian brothers and sisters show that kind of spirit when it comes to helping the Kashmir cause, showing sympathy to Afghans in having things their own way, or in terms of raising their voices for their Iraqi brothers?

Faraz Liaquat
Jakarta

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